Episode #742: What Lies Beneath
Added 2024-06-04 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“Why are you trying to do the Hitchcock stuff when your contemporary, Brian De Palma, is doing it much better? - Eric
On this week’s WHM, we’re kicking off the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza with a chat about the Robert Zemeckis ghost house domestic thriller, What Lies Beneath! Was this one of the last major Hollywood films to have middle-aged people being this horny? Would the movie have been better if they didn’t confirm the existence of a ghost in the world of the story? Isn’t it great seeing James Remar play an academic non-scumbag? How unsettling is it to see Harrison Ford wear a Rolling Stones t-shirt? And how many Hitchcock “riffs” can you cram into one movie before someone has a suit on their hands? PLUS: We take a count of how many Harrison Ford characters go… downtown!
What Lies Beneath stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, James Remar, Miranda Otto, Diana Scarwid, Ray Baker, Wendy Crewson, Amber Valletta, Micole Mercurio, and the great Joe Morton as Dr. Drayton; directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Plus up for the Conner OMalley and almost famous talk in the vhs trailer game
Ed
2025-08-07 01:39:54 +0000 UTCLol! I always thought this movie was another Harrison Ford political thriller and I never watched it. Idk how that notion got in my brain
Smaug
2024-06-12 15:54:56 +0000 UTCIt's been a long time since I watched it but it was a portrayal of a narcissist who destroyed his family for obsession, So i'm gonna go out on a limb and say he doesn't reciprocate
Jamie
2024-06-07 23:15:01 +0000 UTCSo after watching the latest OSL on YouTube YESTERDAY, I made a comment to Eric that he should get "Old Ben" back to do another episode of Hooked On TJ Hooker. And lo and behold, TODAY I get a new episode. What are the odds?! Thanks, Eric, Thanks, Ben!! 🤘
Paul Heidtman
2024-06-07 01:09:42 +0000 UTCoh my god I live for your HP commentaries I'm so EXCITED
Vicky I
2024-06-06 18:09:02 +0000 UTCWhat do you think re Harrison Ford in Expendables 3?
Not the Black Jobs
2024-06-06 14:45:58 +0000 UTCBored White Woman: The Movie. Pfeiffer would have a cult following on TikTok in 2024 😂
Not the Black Jobs
2024-06-06 10:59:25 +0000 UTCSaw this in theaters TWICE because I was at my second of three consecutive theater jobs. Remember really liking it at the time, but not noticing the subliminal Midsommar face until I read about it (probably in Premiere)
Jamie
2024-06-06 04:45:09 +0000 UTCGame Master Chris and Contestant Steve has a lot of potential. I support this legislation.
Tim O'Connor
2024-06-06 02:14:13 +0000 UTCI saw this movie on an airplane while sneaking edibles so I do not at all remember it but I felt fine afterwards.
The Wheel
2024-06-05 23:18:27 +0000 UTCYou never need to bring back a side order of sleeze if the sleeze comes free with every main course
Jason
2024-06-05 20:02:09 +0000 UTCSteve usually gets a lot of them from YouTube because the ones on the tapes are abysmal or non-existent sometimes, he also can't be expected to get every single tape for every single one.
Ray
2024-06-05 19:53:55 +0000 UTCDoes Chris collect VHS tapes though?
Chris Tobias
2024-06-05 19:06:36 +0000 UTCThe boys really had their mouths in the gutter for this one.
Chris Tobias
2024-06-05 19:03:21 +0000 UTCThe guys filed Indy as a no. That said, I'm not sure I agree with them on Deckard. 2049 Deckard may take the spinner down town, but classic era Deckard seems a bit too emotionally reserved and tightly wound for that.
Todd B
2024-06-05 17:39:36 +0000 UTCHan Solo doesn’t eat out for a fact. That’s why he and Leia were divorced at the beginning of Force Awakens. Try watch the Sequel trilogy and contradict me, I dare you.
Dean
2024-06-05 17:20:55 +0000 UTCFord as Jack Ryan definitely goes down town because he’s married to Ann Archer.
Dean
2024-06-05 17:15:53 +0000 UTCHarrison Ford vs. Apes could have been so good in the '80s
Tim O'Connor
2024-06-05 16:31:17 +0000 UTCGot the giggles really badly in the office when Steven said as Pfeiffer so lightheartedly "oh great the bathrooms not haunted!". Had to pause and have a break, love the laughs you guys provide on boring work days 🤓
Charlotte Pocklington
2024-06-05 14:28:45 +0000 UTCWhat about Indy?
Jesse Bacon
2024-06-05 13:49:57 +0000 UTCMichelle Pfeiffer being paired with action movie stars in against-type roles is something that looks promising on paper, yet is more of a disaster in practice. Evidence B to support this theory: The Story of Us with Bruce Willis.
Z
2024-06-05 13:40:36 +0000 UTC*Harrison Ford gruff* "Get off this mortal coil!!"
James Bergquist
2024-06-05 12:45:30 +0000 UTCChechov's paralytic drug
James Bergquist
2024-06-05 12:42:54 +0000 UTCDr Kimble does.... Sela Ward is the wife. She calls that beard the flavorsaver. 😊You know that Sela's head game is on point if you chase a one armed motherfucker for killing her
James Bergquist
2024-06-05 12:26:39 +0000 UTCBeen binging Once in a Lifetime, so saw this movie under the gaze of a big budget Lifetime Thriller. Improved with the addition of Eric Roberts? Him and Remar, chewing scenery like a pair of Langoliers.
James Gibson
2024-06-05 05:22:54 +0000 UTCThank you! I spent awhile wondering how to make it an Eric joke (which could also a Norm joke, yes) and it was staring me right in the face.
Busiris
2024-06-05 04:19:04 +0000 UTCHarrison Ford? More like Harrison Bored! - Norm MacDonald pun probably
Andrew McCoy
2024-06-05 03:31:51 +0000 UTCTwo that didn't come up but I'm guessing are in the 'no' column His Russian naval officer character in K-19: The Widowmaker And his deleted scenes principal in E.T.
Todd B
2024-06-05 00:51:20 +0000 UTCThe cop from Hollywood homicide definitely goes down.
Mark D Myers
2024-06-05 00:38:50 +0000 UTCI think the dude and the Mosquito Coast invented air conditioning so he could munch box comfortably. I think that's what that movie's about I don't really remember.
Jon Wika
2024-06-04 22:31:23 +0000 UTCIt’s been a while since I’ve seen “Patriot Games” but I think the plot is the Irish Republican Army is mad at Jack Ryan because he refuses to go downtown…
Brent Cowan
2024-06-04 20:28:08 +0000 UTCWhat I remember most about this movie is that it was filmed near where I grew up, on location in Vermont. So naturally, my friends and I all had to go see it when it came out just so we could occasionally go, "Oh hey, I know where that is!" The bridge featured in the movie (which, to my knowledge, did not have any sort of "half way point cell signal blocking" technology did exist until about 2010 or so when it was blown up because of structural issues, and a new one could be built. Connects West Addison, VT to Crown Point, NY. The town of Adamant, sadly, is not real. At least not as portrayed in the movie. It's more like a tiny village and in central VT, not the eastern half "Down Route 7 as they say in the movie. But overall not the kind of movie you're average 15-18 year old boys would enjoy, ourselves included.
Andrew Bouvier
2024-06-04 19:51:33 +0000 UTCThere are worse movies out there. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-06-04 18:29:25 +0000 UTCIt's a question I've been asking for almost a quarter century now! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-06-04 18:19:48 +0000 UTC"What Lies Beneath The Planet Of The Apes" could have saved this mess.
Mark Ibarra
2024-06-04 17:20:01 +0000 UTCI thought James Remar was Clancy Brown UNTIL THE CREDITS. I may have had a few glasses of water.
Matt
2024-06-04 14:20:36 +0000 UTC“What is at the end of this link if I click on it, Dr. Jones?” “Fortune and gloryholes, kid, fortune and gloryholes.”
Kevin Matthews
2024-06-04 13:51:09 +0000 UTCFord is a pro. He can go double diamonds on command.
Mark Ibarra
2024-06-04 12:45:31 +0000 UTCI'm starting to think they didn't like the movie.
Mike FM
2024-06-04 12:44:33 +0000 UTCI started drinking each time Michelle Pfeiffer clumsily hurt herself. By the end of the movie, I was a fresh ghost, ready to haunt the Zemeckis Estate. Soon he was tired of me smashing the chandeliers in his castle and yelled at me, "What do you want?" Then I whispered, "Destroy. Forrest Gump."
Eren Keskin
2024-06-04 11:06:08 +0000 UTCAt what point in this movie does Harrison Ford display freakishly erect nipples or did Scary Movie 2 lie to me about that?!
DMAC
2024-06-04 10:57:29 +0000 UTCYou know Ford’s eating Helen Mirren out in “1923.”
Paul
2024-06-04 07:18:16 +0000 UTCWho the fuck allowed Zemeckis to show off the entire movie in a trailer not once ,but twice in the same year between this and Castaway?
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-06-04 06:14:17 +0000 UTCI think Steve being a player and the winner/Chris being Jame master would be a cool mix up on the formula. Get someone else giving clues and let Steve play. He's the expert, after all.
Ray
2024-06-04 05:14:54 +0000 UTCI'm saving this episode for when I'm traveling by plane later this week since I know the WLM won't be ready by then and I like having you guys in my ear while I'm stuck up there. I'll at least repeat the joke I made on Letterboxd: I found the perfect Cryptkeeper pun while watching the movie: Harrison Ford? More like Scare-ison Ford! *holds for applause*
Busiris
2024-06-04 04:09:08 +0000 UTC
